Perfusion Education and ABCP CEU
Made Easy and Affordable

  • Program director Joseph Basha, CCP

    Joseph has been a practicing clinical perfusionist for 40 years. Joseph is the CEO of Houston Extracorporeal Technologies and is the program director of The New Orleans Conference

    read full bio
  • Mark M. Mettauer, MD

    Dr. Mark Mettauer, MD is a cardiac surgery specialist in The Woodlands, TX and has been practicing for 25 years. He specializes in cardiac surgery and thoracic surgery

    read full bio
  • Lucas Duvall, MD

    Lucas M. Duvall, MD, FACS is a board-certified and fellowship trained cardio-thoracic surgeon and a fellow in the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Duvall is the Houston Methodist

    read full bio
  • Devinder Bhatia, MD

    Medical School: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Little Rock, AK - 1991
    Board Certification: Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery - 2004

    read full bio
  • Kimberlee Spurlin, BSN, RN, CCRN

    CV ICU Clinical Coordinator Memorial Hermann The Woodlands The Woodlands, TX

    read full bio
  • Stephanie Ibus, CCP

    Stephanie graduated top in her class with a B.S. degree in Circulation Technology at The Ohio State University in 1999. Over her 20 years in perfusion

    read full bio
  • Patrick O'Toole, CCP

    Clinical Perfusionist Houston Extracorporeal Technologies Houston, TX

    read full bio
  • Mr. Curt Shelley, MEd, RRT-NPS

    ECMO Director Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital Houston, TX

    read full bio
  • Mr. Chris Lusby, CCP

    Clinical perfusionist UT Heart Failure Memorial Hermann TMC Houston, TX

    read full bio
  • Prakash Balan, MD

    Dr. Prakash Balan is a board certified Physician and Assistant Professor for the Department of Internal Medicine at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center

    read full bio
  • John Ingram, CCP

    John Ingram is a magna cum laude graduate from University of Texas, Texas Heart Institute and a board certified perfusionist currently specializing in adult perfusion

    read full bio
  • Keith Samolyk, CPP

    Keith Samolyk first started working in Perfusion in 1989 at Johns Hopkins and has worked in the Mid-Atlantic and New England and he is still very involved with the field in many ways

    read full bio
  • Deborah Lowery Adams, CCP

    BS Health Education 1981 Texas AM University; BS Perfusion 1984 UTHSCH Texas Heart Institute; Practicing clinical perfusionist in Texas Medical Center

    read full bio
  • Hany Samir, MD, FCCP

    Dr. Hany Samir is the founder and CEO of HS Consulting for Telehealth, Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology and Critical Care with Weill Cornell Medical College at the DeBakey Heart

    read full bio
  • William J. DeBois, CCP, MBA

    William J. DeBois, CCP, MBA is Perioperative Services Director and Chief Perfusionist at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.

    read full bio
  • Borut Gersak, MD, PhD

    Dr. Gersak is a full Professor of Surgery, University of Ljubljana, Medical Faculty and Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia

    read full bio
  • Christiane Perme, PT CCS FCCM

    Christiane Perme, PT CCS FCCM is the owner of Perme ICU Rehab Seminars and a Clinical Development Specialist at the Houston Methodist Hospital

    read full bio
  • Roger DeLong, CP

    After 21 years of perfusion, Roger went to the dark side as a clinical specialist, and has worked with ECMO units across the US. His recent work has focused on oxygenator clotting and recirculation

    read full bio
  • Dominic Cappelletti, B.S, RRT, CCP

    I graduated from Butler University in 1988 with a degree in Zoology/Pre-Med. I then completed training as a registered respiratory therapist, and practiced for about 5 years

    read full bio
  • Keshen Mathura, PhD

    Graduated with degree in medicine at the University of Amsterdam. PhD research with prof. Can Ince at the department of Clinical Physiology of the University of Amsterdam Academic Medical Center

    read full bio
  • Matt Warhoover, CCP

    Matt Warhoover graduated Vanderbilt University with a Masters in Health Care Management. He also earned a masters in Perfusion Science from Milwaukee School of Engineering

    read full bio
  • Juan Carlos Zubieta, MD, MPH

    Juan Carlos Zubieta, MD, MPH graduated from Universidad Centroccidental in Venezuela in May of 1995. Dr. Zubieta received his MPH from Morehouse School of Medicine

    read full bio
  • David M. Zlotnick, MD

    I am an interventional cardiologist with UBMD Cardiovascular Medicine, with specialized training in echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and noninvasive vascular interpretation (RPVI)

    read full bio
  • Mark Tatum, Clinical Director

    Clinical Director | Clinical Education and Support Director | VP Clinical Operations “Development of Innovative Patient Centered Programs and Excellence in Execution"

    read full bio
  • Traci Nicole Howeth, BS, LBSW

    Traci Nicole Howeth graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in December of 1989 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Child Development and Family Relations

    read full bio
  • Soma S. Jyothula, MD

    Dr. Soma S. Jyothula earned his medical degree at All India Institute of Medical Sciences and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine

    read full bio
  • Erin Herrman, CCP

    Erin Herrman is a board-certified Perfusionist, with 12 years of experience, who travels nationally and has provided full service Perfusion coverage to over 20 hospitals

    read full bio
  • David Platt, Ph.D

    Dr. David Platt has a PhD in carbohydrate chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and completed his post-doctoral work at Wayne State University in Michigan

    read full bio
  • Linda Mongero, CCP

    Linda Mongero works to advance SpecialtyCare’s pursuit of clinical excellence. Prior to joining SpecialtyCare, she served as Director of Clinical Perfusion at The New York Presbyterian Hospital

    read full bio
  • Tammy Sparacino, CCP

    Tammy graduated from Texas Heart Institute and had been practicing for nearly 17 years in the Houston and surrounding areas

    read full bio
  • Teri Trifiletti, BS, MBA, CCP

    Chicago native, Teri Trifiletti, served as a cardiovascular perfusionist for 22 years. She graduated from Rush University College of Health Sciences with a BS in Perfusion in 1997

    read full bio
  • Ann Guercio, CCP, LP, MBA

    Ann Guercio is a perfusionist with 34 years of experience in the profession and has resided in Houston, Texas for 31 years. She has provided clinical excellence in a variety of settings

    read full bio
  • Mike Brown, CCP

    Micheal Ray Brown, CCP, LP, is a graduate of The Texas Heart School of Perfusion Technology. He has been a perfusionist for 38 years in and around the city of Houston

    read full bio
  • Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins, Jr., MD, FACS

    Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins, Jr. (born August 20, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois), is a physician, biographer and inventor, best known for his work on shock and violence prevention

    read full bio
  • Serina Patrick, RN, BSN, CCTC

    Serina Patrick, RN, BSN, CCTC, works as a Lung Transplant Coordinator at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, where she helps to evaluate patients for transplant

    read full bio
  • Gill Ford II, CCP

    Gill Ford II is the chief perfusionist at Houston Methodist Hospital. He’s worked for Houston Methodist for 6 years and has been the chief for a little over a year

    read full bio
  • Shipali Pulimamidi, MD

    Shipali Pulimamidi, MD graduated from Ross University School of Medicine in 2008, and subsequently completed all her post graduate training in Cooper University Hospital

    read full bio
  • Jordan Hoffman, MD

    Dr. Hoffman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and was raised in Los Angeles, California. His undergraduate degree is from Rice University in Houston, Texas

    read full bio
  • Nikolai Krivitski, Ph.D, D.Sc.

    Doctor of Biology. Thesis: “Evaluation of Hemodynamic Status in Patients During and After Surgery by Electrical Impedance Methods” National Research Center for Surgery

    read full bio
  • Joey Lepore, CCP, MMHC

    From Birmingham, Alabama. Earned a BS in respiratory therapy at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Worked as a RRT at St. Vincent’s Birmingham for 5 years

    read full bio
  • John Poland, CCP

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center Cardiopulmonary Perfusionist · Responsible for Heart Lung Machine · ECMO Patients – transport, bedside monitoring 

    read full bio
  • Supaporn Kulthinee, CCP

    Supaporn attended the Naresuan University in Thailand and received her bachelor’s degree in Cardo-Thoracic Technology in March of 2004

    read full bio
  • Justin Kendrick Senior, SVP & CEO

    Justin Kendrick Senior VP & CEO Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital; Memorial Hermann The Woodlands;

    read full bio
  • Luis Gabriel Navar, PhD

    Dr. Luis Gabriel Navar “Gabby” received his BS from Texas A&M in 1962 and his PhD from the University of Mississippi in 1966 under the direction of Dr. Arthur Guyton

    read full bio
  • Jim Murray, CCP

    8 Graduated from Loyola University certificate in Perfusion Technology. Working since then in the Chicago and northwest Indiana area

    read full bio
  • Emily Foreman, CCP

    I’m the ECMO Coordinator and Chief of Perfusion at Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, TN. I graduated perfusion school from Vanderbilt University in 2016. Prior to that, I was a CVICU nurse in Birmingham, Alabama.

    read full bio
  • Vickie L. Carlyle, RN-BSN, CCRN, E-AEC

    Vickie Carlyle has been in critical care for over 10 years. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Cizik School of Nursing

    read full bio
  • Thomas DiSalvio, BSN, CCP, LP

    Thomas has worked with heart patients since 1988. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University, Class of 1990. He has a BS degree in Exercise Technology with a specialty in Corporate Fitness and Cardiac Rehabilitation.

    read full bio